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Comstock is really the backdoor way to remove access to abortion across the whole country.

– Greer Donley

Found on CNN
12 months ago

You would have essentially on the ballot the question of both Comstock enforcement and also potentially Comstock repeal, do I think, under a Trump presidency, they’re going to confiscate surgical gloves because they could be adapted for use in abortion? No, I don’t think that’s probably going to happen.

– Mary Ziegler

Found on CNN
12 months ago

Social media is a new world that the government really hasn’t gotten ahold of yet, they generally don’t bother perusing your accounts (if they are even public-facing) absent a separate, independent reason to do so.

– Brad Moss

Found on CNN
12 months ago

We do not focus anywhere as much on overall fitness, character [or] trustworthiness, we don’t really get into deep psychological profiling of anybody that might, in this particular case, have picked out [Teixeira].

– Glenn Gerstell

Found on CNN
12 months ago

Teixeira is a great example of how the department of defense has failed to figure out how to root out extremists, the fact that he was able to get a top secret security clearance after it became known to the local police that he shouldn’t have a gun, kind of boggles the mind and it makes me wonder what other kind of problems there are with the clearance system.

– Kris Goldsmith

Found on CNN
12 months ago

There’s a line there that I don’t know that we can cross in the process.

– Carrie Wibben

Found on CNN
12 months ago

I think until junior troops understand how to interpret how their peers are acting, commanders are never going to know if a Teixeira is an extremist, he’s showing up in uniform, he’s going to have his uniform clean, he’s going to salute, his commanders don’t know anything about Teixeira.

– Kris Goldsmith

Found on CNN
12 months ago

This is quite a shift for us to be wholesale excluding documents from the public.

– Catherine Cameron

Found on CNN
12 months ago

One of the things that we’ve seen year after a year since 2015, with the addition of the Special Victims Counsel program – which are attorneys that represent victims throughout the military justice process – is that victims have made it abundantly clear that they would like to help see the department hold their offenders appropriately accountable, but they’d like to do it through nonconfrontational means, and that’s essentially what we see in the percentages with administrative actions and discharges and non-judicial punishment.

– Nate Galbreath

Found on CNN
12 months ago

We certainly, if we could flip a switch and make this change instantly, we would, but we know this is going to take some time.

– Beth Foster

Found on CNN
12 months ago

At the end of the day, we can only do so much at the headquarters level, but, you know, really, this is on our commanders, on our [non-commissioned officers], our frontline leaders to make sure that they are addressing this problem. And, you know, the Secretary says … we need to lead on that. And that that is for at every level of the department.

– Beth Foster

Found on CNN
12 months ago

This resolution is necessary as it is time when America can never hope to be a land of freedom and opportunity so long as half its population is treated like second class citizens.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
12 months ago

In 2023, we should move forward to ratify the ERA with all due haste, because if you look at the terrible things happening to women’s rights in this country … women in America have far fewer rights today than they did even year ago.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
12 months ago

Of course, many of these investments can take time to bear fruit.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
12 months ago

It doesn’t feel pleasant to be under threat.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
12 months ago

Regardless of how positive this action is, it does not absolve the president for refusing to meet with the families of the three Americans being held in Iran – collectively for a total of 18 years. We continue to plead with the White House to let us meet with our president.

– Neda Sharghi

Found on CNN
12 months ago

Deterrent actions like this one are an important tool in our country’s efforts to stop countries from engaging in detentions with impunity, but they are deterrents of future behavior and no deterrent is going to resolve the ongoing detention of Americans that is going on right now.

– Neda Sharghi

Found on CNN
12 months ago

This visit is about reaffirming all that unites our two nations. It’s about a commitment to bear one another’s concerns and listen to each other’s dreams. It allows us to overcome every difficulty with great determination. That allows us to move further and faster in space, cyber, technology and all areas that matter most to our future.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
12 months ago

This is as tux-y as I get.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
12 months ago

I’m happy to meet with McCarthy, but not on whether or not the debt limit gets extended. That’s not negotiable, they quote Reagan all the time and they quote Trump, both of which said. … I’m paraphrasing – it would be an absolute crime to not extend the debt limit.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
12 months ago

Now, the president can no longer put this economy in jeopardy. We have lifted the debt limit, we have done our job, we are the only body that passed anything.

– Kevin McCarthy

Found on CNN
12 months ago

The rise in antisemitism, of course, fills all American Jews and others with deep fear, we need Gov. DeSantis to speak out loudly and clearly when antisemitic acts take place in Florida itself. Especially those that have been perpetrated by far-right, White-supremacist elements. It is not enough to nearly bemoan ‘woke politics.’ He must also bemoan the reactionary forces that have endangered Jewish life and lives for centuries.

– Jeffrey Salkin

Found on CNN
12 months ago

He’s got to get elected president to accomplish anything over there.

– Mel Sembler

Found on CNN
12 months ago

This means that both the squadron’s state Air National Guard operational commander and current federal orders administrative commander have been suspended pending completion of the Department of the Air Force Inspector General Investigation, also, the Department of Air Force has temporarily removed these individuals’ access to classified systems and information.

– Ann Stefanek

Found on CNN
12 months ago

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